Hollywood
used to be a place where larger-than-life celebrities possessed the intangible
quality of “star power.” However, things have changed over the course of time
and have done so in a manner that appears to be as dramatic as the cinematic
art itself so frequently manifests. The Academy Award ceremonies are supposedly
designed to honor excellence in the most prestigious form of entertainment. But
the dearth of noteworthy films and relatable content, and the inability of
stars to keep their politics to themselves, all serve to illustrate how out of
touch with the viewing public the industry has become. In a town famous for its
creativity in production, Hollywood still cannot seem to get its act together.
[more...]

The
Affordable Care Act was never about healthcare; it was about control. The law
was passed in 2010 using a slick campaign of promises that were never meant to
be kept including the now familiar tag lines ‘if you like your doctor you can
keep your doctor’ and ‘affordable health insurance for both uninsured and those
uninsurable because of pre-existing health conditions.’ In reality, it was a
complex mix of taxes that effectively orchestrated a transfer of wealth from
the working and middle class to the government in the form of taxes, and to the
medical corporate complex (health insurance, Big Pharma and corporate
hospitals) in the form of give away in the guise of mandates and corporate
welfare. The ACA is a house of cards that has been sustained by the tried and
true method of divide and conquer - by separating people into aggrieved
interest groups and creating a framework that creates strawmen who can be
vilified. It is time to redefine what quality healthcare means. Instead of
being considered a right, perhaps it
is time to think of it as a service. [more...]

“There is no such thing as a global anthem, a global
currency, or a global flag,” said President Donald Trump at the Conservative
Political Action Conference days ago. “This is the United States of America
that I’m representing.” But there is a global currency, wrote economist Ralph
Benko: the U.S. Dollar, which since the end of World War II has been the
“world’s reserve currency” - once a blessing but now a curse. The dollar was
formally crowned with this title and power then by the Bretton Woods Agreement,
whereby most of the world’s industrial nations agreed that the U.S. currency
would be pegged to gold at a fixed value of $35/ounce, and other major
currencies would be pegged to the dollar. [more...]

President
Trump’s clarion call, “Peace Through Strength” is his impetus to move forward
strengthening the military. But history
has shown Democrats do just the opposite.
Jimmy Carter decided, as did Mr. Obama, that America should seek peace
through weakness. He cut military spending and overlooked many issues in the
Middle East. He felt it was our strength that was causing tensions with Russia,
to the point of ordering his administration to dismantle 200 to 250 nuclear
weapons on naval vessels in Europe and the Middle East. That worked out well! He
proposed cuts to operations and maintenance, reduced training and alert status
equipment, and more. This made our B-52 aircraft, assigned to the Strategic Air
Command to be ready, at the lowest it had been since before the war with only
1/3 of the equipment needed to keep us safe. This, he felt, would show the
world we weren’t bullies. Is this in the Dems’ DNA? After Reagan left the most
peace-keeping, combat-ready force on the planet, we had peace in the Middle
East, a dismantled Soviet empire, the respect of our allies, and a healthy fear
from our enemies. [more...]

The
Academy Awards are a great annual tradition in which the bubble of Hollywood
celebrities, their fashion designers and agents float to the surface. The
industry has become a more pompous joke than ever. It's a joke in which a Big
Bang Theory second banana tows his girlfriend around to demand that Muslim
migrants be let into the country. It's the joke in which Meryl Streep whines
about how mean everyone is to celebrities and Aaron Sorkin accuses the
rest of the country of being out of touch with his city. The whole point here
is to mock and sneer at President Trump and his voters. But the joke is really
on the celebrity industry. [more...]

The
most recent outrage for the globalists at the Wall Street Journal editorial board is a proposed Trump
administration effort to resolve two different versions of government reported
trade statistics for the better. Since the WSJ opinion editors do not think
trade deficits matter at all, one wonders why they are incensed about the statistical
change that would show deeper trade deficits than previously reported with some
countries. The WSJ outrage piece is glaringly inaccurate. The article wrongly
states that the Trump administration is only excluding the export side of the
Pass Through goods. [more...]

The bureaucracy has become part of the “Deep State,” the
“Machine” that monetary expert Craig R. Smith and I discuss in our book, Money, Morality & The
Machine: Smith’s Law in an Unethical, Over-Governed Age.
The outcome of President Trump’s battle with the bureaucracy could determine
whether America’s Constitution and economy survive. It is literally a battle to
the death, liberty versus the government our framers tried so hard to control. [more...]

I
spoke to radio talk show hosts from across the nation this past week about the
issue of free speech on college campuses, the protests at UC Berkeley, and
BridgeCal. The overwhelming sentiment is complete and utter disgust at the
liberal establishment. To them, the dominant liberal position seems to be
unapologetically supporting violence as a means to the end of political
discussion. Many conservatives I’ve talked to across the country view liberal
students at schools like UC Berkeley not as individuals who are willing to
actively challenge what they think they know and believe, but as people who
actively engage in the destruction of property, people and fundamental First
Amendment ideals. But in these past several weeks alone, in the development of
Bridgecal, we’ve seen hundreds of students come out to discuss the complexity
of different issues they have strong opinions on. [more...]

Pranav is a student at
UC Berkeley studying business and political science. He is the founder and
president of BridgeCal, a nonpartisan political organization that seeks to
bridge the political divide on campus and in the nation through a platform of
free and open discourse between people who disagree with each other.

Please
join me as we talk about the state of the Trump presidency with Chris Ruddy,
CEO of Newsmax - a long-time Trump friend and Mar-a-Lago member - and hear the
advice he has been giving our 45th POTUS. Listen to my latest version of
REVOLUTION_The Podcast. [more...]

A
mere few days before then-president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, former
President Obama expanded the ability of intelligence agencies to share
unfiltered telephone surveillance information. The Obama administration issued
Executive Order 12333, which allows the National Security Agency (NSA) to share
raw intercepted communications with agencies that include the FBI, DEA, and
Department of Homeland Security, among others. Numerous press reports at the time
indicated that the Obama Justice Department and the FBI sought Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Trump campaign insiders
and then-presidential candidate Trump himself during the final months of the
presidential campaign. [more...]

The
big merger news coming out of the weekend was Kraft Heinz Co. making an
unsolicited bid for Unilever PLC. In a short time, the deal was off; Unilever
rejected the $143 billion takeover offer saying it “fundamentally undervalues”
the company. Meanwhile, Kraft Heinz announced it was withdrawing its bid for
the international consumer products giant. A deal this size would have been one
of the largest ever; in the history of the food and beverage industry, it would
have narrowly topped Anheuser-Busch InBev’s 2016 takeover of SABMiller. The
deal would have certainly affected the marketplace. [more...]

TALKERS
Touts Success of Trump 'Big Agenda' Book

The
new book by David Horowitz, 'Big Agenda: President's Trump's Plan to Save America,'
just hit the New York Times
bestseller list and is featured in yesterday’s edition of TALKERS. 'Big Agenda'
is the first and best book on President Trump's plans. Rush Limbaugh has endorsed
the book and David Horowitz is making the rounds on major talk radio shows,
after interviews on Fox News, Newsmax TV and other outlets. Make sure you book
David, as Trump will be releasing some surprising plans soon. [more...]

President
Trump Condemns Anti-Semitism as Anti-Semite Leads Race to Head Dems

President
Donald J. Trump condemned anti-Semitism, including the slew of bomb threats
phoned in to Jewish community centers. "Anti-Semitism is horrible,
and it's going stop and it has to stop. The anti-Semitic threats targeting our
Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful, and a very
sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice
and evil," the president said. The perpetrators of the threats remain
unknown, but a certain quality of trolling has been attributed to them.
Meanwhile Democrat officials appeared on stage with Farrakhan as he denounced
the Jews. [more...]

The
Trump administration’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has
hit the ground running. She spoke truth to power by strongly calling
out the UN for its anti-Israel bias and double standards. Her predecessor,
Samantha Power, never came close. After attending her first regular meeting of
the UN Security Council devoted to the Middle East, including the
Palestinian-Israeli situation, Ambassador Haley remarked to reporters,
“The first thing I want to do is talk about what we just saw in there.” Calling
the meeting “a bit strange,” Ambassador Haley noted how the focus of blame for
everything that has gone wrong in the Middle East seemed to be placed almost
entirely on Israel. [more...]

I
am a UC Berkeley student who's been involved with everything that's been going
on this past week with the Milo protests. Professor
Bill Shireman is sponsoring me because he thinks it’s an important
story. I was a journalist on the night of the protests and was beaten by ANTIFA
protesters for filming the violence, and when I wrote an editorial condemning
the violence and calling for a new free speech movement at Berkeley, the Daily
Cal rejected it twice. Our school newspaper only published op-eds that
supported the violence. My editorial has since been published on The Huffington
Post: [more...]

Pranav is a student at
UC Berkeley studying business and political science. He is the founder and president
of BridgeCal, a nonpartisan political organization that seeks to bridge the
political divide on campus and in the nation through a platform of free and
open discourse between people who disagree with each other.

No
need to dig deep to find activity in the mining sector. Coming off a positive
end to 2016, Ernst and Young expects mergers and acquisitions in the mining
sector to pick up right where they left off. The positive environment in the
equity markets and strengthening investor confidence are leading drivers of the
high 2017 expectations. There are several industry-specific factors and general
patters behind the M&A activity. [more...]

A
costly Dodd-Frank-related rule affecting the energy industry - the Securities and
Exchange Commission’s resource extraction rule - is
heading toward repeal. The final version of the rule, which was approved in
June 2016 for enforcement beginning in 2018, required “resource extraction
issuers to disclose payments made to governments for the commercial development
of oil, natural gas or minerals.” This rule affected public companies -
companies that trade on the stock exchange - but did not affect their private
company competitors, nor many foreign competitors, creating an unbalanced
playing field. [more...]

In 2015, American law enforcement used civil asset forfeiture
laws to seize more than $5 billion from people. This is more money than was
stolen in all burglaries, combined that year, as Craig R. Smith and I document
in our latest book, Money, Morality & The Machine: Smith’s Law in an
Unethical, Over-Governed Age. When Ronald Reagan supported the wide
use of civil asset forfeiture, his aim was to stop letting crime pay by
confiscating what its dirty money – especially illegal drug money – buys.
President Trump and his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as defenders of
capitalism and private property, ought to oppose the way civil asset forfeiture
laws are now sometimes misused against innocent citizens by money-hungry
governments.
[more...]

"A male owner of a
female slave has the right to sexual access to her.”

These
views don’t come from an ISIS underground bunker, but out of the brilliantly
lit halls of Georgetown University where rape and slavery are defended by an
Islamic studies professor. Georgetown had changed the names of Mulledy Hall and
McSherry Hall because Mulledy and McSherry had once been involved in selling some
slaves back in the early 19th century. When Christina Hoff Sommers spoke at
Georgetown, feminists demanded trigger warnings and a university official
threatened College Republicans. But defending actual slavery and rape is still
okay at Georgetown... so long as it’s committed by Muslims under the license of
the Koran. [more...]

The
House GOP Tax Reform plan is very bold and includes some very helpful
conceptual shifts. But it has some very strange results, too. Let's take a look
at how it matches up against CPA's preferred tax reform for trade
competitiveness. Speaker Paul Ryan and Chairman Kevin Brady (Ways and Means
Committee) have proposed a very interesting destination based cash flow (DBCF)
tax for business tax reform. The plan has these important features: [more...]

This
awards season has had many of the viewing public appalled as they watched
entertainment film and television luminaries shift from self-congratulatory
mode to political preaching overdrive. Prior to the 59th Grammys, industry
insiders had already telegraphed that Sunday night’s show would feature music
stars who were free to let loose and air their political grievances. And so
they did. Oftentimes comments were delivered with not-so-clever implications
and other times with pure vitriol. [more...]

Will
Mayor de Blasio be indicted? There are many
investigations swirling around NYC Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio. Among the
numerous possible prospective charges are bribery, pay-for-play, performing
illegal favors for contributors and a laundry list of criminal acts. A meeting
between Bharara and de Blasio is to take place to allow the Mayor to explain
his knowledge of the above. As any first-year law student knows, nothing good
can come of it. Especially because de Blasio is a fool, a poor judge of his own
limited talents, a buffoon of the lowest order and an all around idiot, as
exemplified by his recent statement that “Illegal aliens driving drunk isn’t a
serious crime.” [more...]

No!
They will fail decisively. Their non-organic movement will fade and their
funding will dry up. Donors will catch on that their approach is out of touch
with the American people and there is no point to continue to fund these activities.
President Trump will protect America from global terrorism, will restore law
and order in our cities, and will re-ignite our economy with 4% annual GDP
growth. His successes will change the mood of America and make the Anti-Trump
Left irrelevant to the American people. [Go
here to identify who the Anti-Trump Left is and what their objectives are...]

Even
before he took office, we started hearing and seeing protesters (rioters) who
wanted Trump impeached. NEWSFLASH for the low IQ protesters: you need to be in
office first and commit an impeachable offense. I’m not really worried about
this action. Most of them don’t even know what an impeachable offense is or
else they would have done it to Obama, right? Because if they know what an
impeachable offense is and they chose to ignore it with Obama, like they refused
to charge the head of the IRS and Hillary Clinton with anything, then it
solidifies my mantra from last year: “Dems believe themselves to be superior in
all things, including being above the law over Republicans” and they believe
that any thought that comes between their two ears has to be right and just and
everything Republicans say is unjust... EVEN if they’re the exact same words
that a Dem may have said years or even months earlier. [more...]

Three
weeks in and is President Trump in over his head? There’s never been a presidency that has
gotten off to a worse start - it’s been one fiasco after another. Listen to my latest version of REVOLUTION_The
Podcast. [more...]

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Welcome
to a new administration and a new political paradigm. Donald Trump is the first
workaholic president since LBJ. He is said to be up working till all hours of
the night, subsisting on just 4 hours of sleep. He starts his days off at 5:30
am setting the news cycle with a barrage of tweets, and then it’s on to more
important matters. This is in stark contrast to the prior White House occupant
who was more often found on the golf course, watching ESPN in his second-floor
study and generally doing everything in his power to avoid putting in a full
day at the office, Oval or otherwise. “W” was home at the residence by 9 pm
cuddling up with Laura; and Bill Clinton was too busy chasing skirts or
hob-knobbing with the rich and famous to ever take the office too seriously. [more...]

Hollywood
is its own brand. And although the name itself used to be synonymous with
inspiration, innovation, talent, quality, and creativity in all things
entertainment, the brand of one of the country’s most unique industries appears
to be on a distinctly downward trajectory. Multiple factors are responsible for
the degradation of an impeccably crafted decades-long image, and these factors
may even lead to its ultimate demise. But of all of the things that have had a
minor or major impact, nothing has been more deleterious to the brand than the
angry appearance and hateful words of Hollywood’s celebrities, who like it or
not are the “face” of Hollywood’s products. [more...]

Iran's Nuclear Agenda, ISIS, and the Challenge to
Trump

Joel
Gilbert, an expert on Iran and Islamism, says, "The West's
failure to understand Iranian goals and the Islamist agenda, and their
obsession with eliminating Israel, is the greatest danger now facing the
West." Gilbert also discusses ISIS and their role in the Middle East and
their war against Western interests. A graduate of the University of London’s
School of Oriental and African Studies, Gilbert has produced two features films
on Middle East politics: Atomic Jihad (2010) and Farewell
Israel (2007). He
was an advisor to the Cruz for President campaign in 2016.

President
Trump signed a memorandum on February 3, 2017 which directs the Department of
Labor to undertake a new “economic and legal analysis” of a pending piece of
Dodd-Frank legislation - the new Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule - which was
to be implemented in April. The memorandum seeks to determine whether investors
and the financial industry have been and will be harmed by the directive, in
the areas of access to financial advice, access to investment products, job
loss within the financial industry, changes in investment costs and increased
litigation. Many news outlets misreported that the President issued an
executive order that halted implementation of the Fiduciary rule, but that was
not the case. “To the extent that the new analysis reveals problems, the Labor
secretary is directed to ‘publish for notice and comment a [new] proposed rule
rescinding or revising the rule.’” [more...]

Ever
since Trump won the presidential election, we see the Left opposing democracy.
The Left is not just against America’s Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and
our Electoral College system of electing a president, they seem to be against
true democracy as well. Indeed, the Left has moved over the years from being
liberal, to being progressive, to being socialist, and now it appears they are
moving to being totalitarian and anti-democratic. [more...]

Big
news over the weekend came from states, organizations, and public and private
companies speaking out against President Trump’s immigration restrictions.
Moreover, the long-awaited Super Bowl commercials took their 30-second to
1-minute ad space to fuel the controversy. It seems that the heavyweights are
trying to warn the country that this action could hurt our economy. On Sunday,
major U.S. tech companies such as Alphabet (Google), Apple, Facebook, and
nearly 100 others, argued in a letter to the President that banning visitors
would hurt their businesses. [more...]

Is the wall only to keep illegals out, or is it also to
keep the rich in? The Internal Revenue Service, which many hope Mr. Trump will
rein in, on January 25 asserted its power to revoke the passports of those the
IRS says owe taxes. In our latest book, Money,
Morality & The Machine, Craig R. Smith and I warned of this. This
new Progressive rule declares that citizens who owe taxes would not be
permitted to leave the United States. These citizens would be required to pay
the demanded tax and penalties to exit, or live out their lives without leaving
the United States under a kind of nationwide house arrest. [more...]

Obama made many shocking, damaging attacks on Israel; the
list is so long, it would take me an entire book to list them all. Many
Americans know in Obama’s final hour in office, he released $221 million of
U.S. taxpayer money to the Palestinian Authority. Keep in the mind this money
was frozen by Congressional leaders. It was so important
to send American taxpayer money to Israel’s enemies, that President Obama made
it his last official act in office. But all of that pales in comparison to the
Ben Rhodes story. Ben Rhodes is
the centerpiece of Obama’s final vicious attack on Israel. Here's
the story very few Americans have heard...[more...]

President
Trump's executive order is "going to get Americans
killed," Senator Murphy declared. The Connecticut Democrat was
joining a chorus of the clueless warning us that if we don’t let Muslims into
America, they’ll join ISIS and kill us. Singing their brains out in the
same stupid chorus were Senator McCain and Senator Graham (“a self-inflicted
wound in the fight against terrorism”), Senator Ben Sasse (“the terrorist
recruiters win by telling kids that America is banning Muslims”) and Senator
Heitkamp (“confirms the lie terrorists tell their recruits: that America is
waging a war on Islam.”) There’s only one problem with this hostage crisis
theory of immigration: It’s insane. If they’ll go off and join ISIS if we don’t
let them in, what happens when we do let them in? [more...]

I predicted that now Fmr. President Barack Obama,
whose ideology was inspired by communist radical Frank Marshall Davis, will
continue to sow racial discord and class warfare using divide-and-conquer
tactics even now that he is out of office. Obama was never interested in being the
President of the United States. He was
only interested in using the presidency to agitate and to try to divide the
country and help foment this long-term [leftist] revolution. Evidenced by his
recent comments on the refugee ban and his support of the protesters, I believe
Obama is planning to remain the head of the Democrat Party and help organize
and agitate for at least the next four years. [more...]

President
Trump has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch, 49, to fill the Supreme Court seat held
by Justice Antonin Scalia until he passed away last February. In announcing the
nomination, President Trump said, "Judge Gorsuch has outstanding legal
skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline and has earned bipartisan
support." President Trump added that Judge Gorsuch was “the man our
country needs and needs badly to ensure the rule of law and the rule of
justice.” Judge Gorsuch was a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, a
Harvard Law School graduate, and a clerk for Supreme Court Justices Byron White
and Anthony Kennedy. He served in a high-ranking position in the Justice
Department before he was nominated by former President George W. Bush and
confirmed by voice vote in the Senate for a seat on the United States Court of
Appeals for the 10th Circuit in 2006. [more...]

Freedom Center announced
a new campaign targeting so-called
“sanctuary campuses” which violate federal immigration law and endanger
American citizens. The campaign was to kick off with a speech by Breitbart.com
editor and conservative activist Milo Yiannopoulos at UC-Berkeley on February
1st. (The talk was cancelled amid violent protests.) The Center is calling on
President Trump to withdraw federal grants from so-called Sanctuary schools and
on the Department of Justice to prosecute university officials, beginning with
former Department of Homeland Security head and UC President Janet Napolitano.
[more...]

President
Donald Trump’s senior policy advisor Stephen Miller has come under fire for his
role in crafting the president’s pause on immigration from seven
Muslim-majority nations, and is being cast by prominent media figures as a
toxic influence within the administration. But for the conservatives who know
Miller best, a far different picture emerges of the 31-year-old man who’s
become a significant player in the White House.

The
Daily Caller article below talks about my influence on Steve Miller (it calls
me his “mentor”), and in particular my role in influencing Miller and Bannon to
adopt a $130 bill voucher program for inner city kids. February is Black
History month and President Trump marked it by meeting with black leaders in
the White House. I believe if Trump is successful with this voucher program and
his promise of a New Deal for the inner cities, he can win 20-25% of the black
vote. If he does that, the Democrats can’t win a national election.

From The Daily Caller:

David
Horowitz, a long-time mentor to Miller, strongly disputes that
characterization. In an interview with The Daily Caller, the conservative
commentator effusively praised the White House advisor.

“He’s
a good guy, Steve Miller, one of the most brilliant and courageous young men
I’ve ever met,” he told The Daily Caller.

The
Frontpage Magazine founder recalled how he helped Miller in his conservative
activism at his California high school and was impressed by how a teenager
could show such dedication to his political beliefs — amid very strong
opposition from school administrators and his fellow students.

He
jokingly added he wondered how Miller got into Duke University, considering how
much he upset those in charge at his school.

When
asked about the policy advisor’s politics, Horowitz had a surprising answer.
“Steve has John F. Kennedy views,” Horowitz told The DC. “He’s a John F.
Kennedy Republican.”

He
said that Miller shares with Kennedy the commitment to uplift lower-income
citizens into the American dream, and he believes the young political operative
exceeds “JFK liberals” in one particular regard.

“Steve
Miller cares for the inner-city kids in more ways than John F. Kennedy did.
He’s better than the JFK liberals,” Horowitz argued. “He and [Steve] Bannon are
responsible for the $130 billion scholarship program for inner
city kids, but that doesn’t get any coverage.”

When
it comes to immigration, an issue Miller specializes in, Horowitz says his
protege’s concern comes from a desire to preserve America as a healthy “secular
democracy” and believes that every “patriotic American” should agree with the
Trump aide’s hardline position on the subject.

“Anybody
with a half a brain would be concerned with immigration,” the commentator told
The DC. “Who wouldn’t be concerned with America’s borders?” [more...]